🎂 Birthday Message Wall (Enhancing Business Central’s HR)🎉
A Birthday Message Wall extension adds human celebration features to Business Central's HR module, enabling automated company birthday greetings, peer-to-peer messages, birthday tracking, and dynamic role center headlines. It helps HR departments automate birthday management, allows employees to send personalized messages, and provides management with team interaction metrics.
post Gerardo Rentería Blog
"A work queue calculates which employees have birthdays that day, creates personalized company messages, and instantly posts them to the employee's message inbox."
Key points
- Implements automated daily job queue processing to identify birthdays and send personalized company messages to employee inboxes
- Enables employees to exchange birthday messages with colleagues through a two-click interface and 7-day visibility window
- Stores birthday data via extended employee table with automatic calculations for next birthday date and days remaining
- Integrates with Role Center headlines that dynamically display birthday context for each user
- Provides HR analytics dashboard with birthday metrics and full audit trail of all celebrations
Quotes
- “A work queue calculates which employees have birthdays that day, creates personalized company messages, and instantly posts them to the employee’s message inbox.” (Explains the core automation mechanism that eliminates manual HR intervention)
AL objects mentioned
As named in the post. A name that matches one object page by exact type and name links to it; the others stay as named.
- table “GDRGBirthdayMessage”
- table “GDRGEmployeeBirthday”
- table “GDRGUserSetup”
- page “GDRGUserSetupPage”
- enum “GDRGBirthdayMessageType”
- codeunit “GDRGBirthdayManagement”
- codeunit “GDRGBirthdayNotification”
- codeunit “GDRGBirthdayHeadline”
- page “GDRGBirthdayManagementHR”
- page “GDRGTeamBirthdayPortal”
- page “GDRGMyBirthdayMessages”
- page “GDRGBirthdayMessageDialog”
- page “GDRGBirthdayHeadlinePart”
- page “GDRGBusinessManagerRC”
- permissionset “GDRGBirthdayMsg”
Not found in BC28-30: table “GDRGBirthdayMessage”, table “GDRGEmployeeBirthday”, table “GDRGUserSetup”, page “GDRGUserSetupPage”, enum “GDRGBirthdayMessageType”, codeunit “GDRGBirthdayManagement”, codeunit “GDRGBirthdayNotification”, codeunit “GDRGBirthdayHeadline”, page “GDRGBirthdayManagementHR”, page “GDRGTeamBirthdayPortal”, page “GDRGMyBirthdayMessages”, page “GDRGBirthdayMessageDialog”, page “GDRGBirthdayHeadlinePart”, page “GDRGBusinessManagerRC”, permissionset “GDRGBirthdayMsg”.
Context
- Features: Automated birthday notifications, Peer message exchange, Birthday tracking and calculations, Role center integration, Message history storage, Job queue automation, Birthday analytics dashboard, Dynamic headline display
Source: Gerardo Renteria, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.